My choice – Antique Wall Art
![My choice, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4e8f8d696be6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of My choice. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Titled simply "My Choice," this hand-colored lithograph offers only its title as a clue to its scene, and the record gives no further detail about the figures or setting. It was published by Currier & Ives, the New York firm that produced inexpensive prints in large numbers from the 1830s into the early twentieth century and sold them to households and shops across the country. Coloring was often done by hand, sometimes by teams working in sequence, so copies of the same design can differ in tone. The catalog number, which researchers still use to trace each design, is a useful way into the firm's output. The publication date is given only as a range, between 1856 and 1907, which shows how long popular images could stay in circulation.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4654 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,091 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174957 |
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